the "this might kill you or make you hallucinate" ailse?
Nope. They'll be right along side everything else with labeling listing the risks, the ingredients, and a known manufacturer. This is much better than getting stuff in an unlabeled plastic bag from some guy in an alley.
Look how many lives are devastated or lost by using/abusing legal pain medications, or alcohol, or even tobacco.
How many lives are ruined by an underworld of organized crime driven by the illegal drug trade? I'd rather take social issues like smoking too much weed than wondering if I'll get shot on the way to work. Once things are brought forward into society, people can really begin to deal with the issues. Hiding behind legislation and law enforcement is truly a state of denial.
ummm, tobbacco, alchohol, coffee, and chocolate are not addictive to the point that you can't quit it yourself, and I like them all and use them all with the exception of tobacco.
Okay, what about (insert currently illegal drug, here)?
If any drug were to remain illegal, it would be those that can kill on the first dose. Marijuana is not one of these (barring one-in-a-million allergic reactions).
That's because legalization brings everything out into the open for people to deal with it without having to hide in dark alleys. It encourages honesty and realistic thinking regarding these substances. It is the right solution, but so many people are too crippled by fear and bigotry to really do anything about it.
Tell that to the highway patrolmen that get to inform the families of drunk-driving victims.
Perhaps the penalties for drunk driving are too lax? Freedom stops when other people are hurt, and the penalties of abusing freedom should be high enough to discourage it. Whether alcohol is legal or not is irrelevant, here.
it is impossible to separate the problems of drugs and race in America.
Mainly due to socialist policies that keep certain racial groups trapped in untenable situations. The greatest gift of government-based charity to the people is stagnation in areas where there are too few jobs, the rents are too high, and the only outlets are drugs and crime.
Says a lot about our commitment to keeping the truly dangerous drugs away from kids, doesn't it?
The government doesn't care about children, it cares about power. The only reason tobbacco, alchohol, coffee, and chocolate aren't controlled substances and illegal is that they were already too large in the economy and backed by people big enough to push the government around.
One huge positive aspect of legalization is equitable treatment. Right now, the legislation is extremely bigoted in favor of one group of people and totally against another group for only political reasons. In the USA, this should have people up in arms.
attempting to gain the upper hand through technology is even stupider.
Especially if they can't scan every letter. The trivial work around is to mail letters with no return address from a random postal dropbox knowing that only some fraction of them will be intercepted. Given the price markup for illegal drugs, the losses are probably tolerable. Legalizing drugs would collapse the high mark-up, making both the scanning system and the way around it moot.
One thing I look forward to is Windows Administrator becomeing the Buggy Whip Maker of the future. We are in the midst of a new technological revolution, and I'd say we're still in the "pre-teen" stages of its maturity.
Warp 1 is stated to be c in both the TOS and TNG warp scales in the Star Trek TNG Technical Manual.
Okay, of all of us who actually do own both manuals, who are proud of it and who are slightly ashamed of it? I was proud of it, but now I tend to keep them hidden...
Yes, I DO question your patriotism, because it seems like you sure as hell don't love what our country stands for. You'd rather side with the terrorists than side with a millitary commander who is doing the right thing.
Patriotism in the USA is a love of freedom and the Constitution and nation that sustain that freedom. Right now, a lot of stuff is happening where a lot of people feel there is insufficient transparency to the public. It is absolutely patriotic to at least challenge the status quo and try to increase the amount of information available in the interest of maintaining the balance of power between the people and their government.
You'd rather side with the terrorists than side with a millitary commander who is doing the right thing.
While you seem confident in your position, please recognize that it is the people's responsibility and obligation to ask "Is he doing the right thing?" The government has the obligation to make sound arguments to the people in defense of its actions, and there is a lot of discussion that those sound arguments aren't appearing as frequently as they should be.
Patriots, especially in the USA, challenge instances where the government increases in size and power, they challenge excessive taxation, they challenge censorship, they challenge violation of privacy, and they challenge socialist policies. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written after a face-to-face experience with tyrannical government, and we should take it's ideas very seriously before dismissing them in favor of some current populist opinion. For example, the USA is not a Christain nation, nor is it intended to be a haven for people seeking a life managed by their government, nor is it a utopia of any form. Simply, it is supposed to be a place where people can find their path in life without fearing persecution for that exploration and discovery. It's quite simple in theory, yet has lead to unprecedented growth in a short span of time (200 years across thousands of years of history is definitely unprecedented).
The fact is that your great leader is a coward who ducked the draft and then deserted to avoid a drug test.
I don't know, I was satisfied stopping at the fact that he is a tool of the major political parties. Being a Republican or a Democrat running for high offices isn't such a good thing, anymore.
They didn't make sense other than the tax shelter aspect. And that is currently going on with reprocessing coal by spraying it with oil which results in a tax credit equal to the cost of the "product" (coal sprayed with oil).
These sorts of things are why I find the way taxes are implemented so frustrating. In effect, creating a tax shelter specific to oil wells creates a lie in the economy. The government is subsidizing oil production in a way that creates an artificial and politically-motivated advantage for oil production, when it otherwise possibly wouldn't have existed. The outcome is a short-sighted and selfish tax law from the past causes damage to the free market that lasts decades and probably centuries.
Dividing US energy useage by land area I get 0.344 W/m^2 compared to something like 164 W/m^2 from the sun
This means at 100% efficiency, we would have to devote about 0.2% of the USA towards energy collection. At 20% efficiency, this would be one percent, which is just a bit bigger than South Carolina. So, while converting South Carolina into a solar farm would finally make that state useful (just joking...partly), I hesitantly agree that pure solar conversion to electricity probably isn't practical. If we extend things out into the oceans, such as harnessing thermal layers in the water, there is probably a lot more potential for practical solar power.
You lose land for food production for humans.
It depends on how much corn would need to be put back into the system. For example, a car engine runs itself once started using gasoline that doens't get converted into useful work. In that case, it is an acceptable inefficiency. For corn-biodesiel production to make self-sufficient farming, someone with enough information would need to do the math to see whether the inefficiency is acceptible. There is already enough food in the world (distribution of it is another matter entirely), so it could work out that biodesiel is practical.
Dammit, I told you not to reveal my real name on Slashdot!!!
Get a duce and a half 6x6 or a unimog if your going to be dragging heavy shit through the woods.
Fine. The example still stands, where there are good tools for the job. On the road, a 6x6 is only slightly less practical as a humvee for commuting to work, but it still is fully justified in other uses. Remember, the statement at the top of this thread had made a generalization that humvees (unimogs, 6x6s, whatever) weren't the best use of oil, and I'm just trying to say that, basically, a big diesel engine on a big off-road vehicle can do wonders where there aren't roads suitable for electric wonder vehicles. In the future this could very well change, but it doesn't stand like that today.
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It didn't even provide a Java stack trace? That I find hard to believe.
I believe there was a stack trace, but it omitted the SQL error messages from the DBMS. It was basically "Hi there, sir. An error occurred. Have a nice day." The stack trace just made it say the same thing in a dozen or so lines.
As for using the wrong tool for the job, or not educating the developers, what can I say about that?
I agree entirely...this project is something that I can only watch hopelessly from afar.
You mean how about one-third of them Switched to Windows XP? Google Zeitegist is telling, where Windows is now spread across XP, 2000, ME, 98, and a touch of 95. Suprisingly, Windows 98 ranks right along side Windows XP. Back in the early 90's it was mostly 3.1 and DOS in a much smaller user base.
The migration to WinFX/Longhorn/whatever will be mainly new computer purchases plus some fraction of XP/2000/ME/98/95 users. There probably won't be the march of the lemmings migration like there was with Windows 95.
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I think you're kinda cute.
What, you can see me? See me through...the monitor? (crash) Now you can't see me!!! HA HA, jokes on you!!!
But then they would know that person X is recieving drugs, and could bust him.
I'm sure there are ways around this. Some one could set up a recieving company of some form using loopholes, etc., to launder the incoming shipments.
And how could your victim prove otherwise?
They simply deny it. "I don't know why they put my address on this envelope, they must either have gotten of of the web or have an agenda against me."
the "this might kill you or make you hallucinate" ailse?
Nope. They'll be right along side everything else with labeling listing the risks, the ingredients, and a known manufacturer. This is much better than getting stuff in an unlabeled plastic bag from some guy in an alley.
Look how many lives are devastated or lost by using/abusing legal pain medications, or alcohol, or even tobacco.
How many lives are ruined by an underworld of organized crime driven by the illegal drug trade? I'd rather take social issues like smoking too much weed than wondering if I'll get shot on the way to work. Once things are brought forward into society, people can really begin to deal with the issues. Hiding behind legislation and law enforcement is truly a state of denial.
ummm, tobbacco, alchohol, coffee, and chocolate are not addictive to the point that you can't quit it yourself, and I like them all and use them all with the exception of tobacco.
Okay, what about (insert currently illegal drug, here)?
If any drug were to remain illegal, it would be those that can kill on the first dose. Marijuana is not one of these (barring one-in-a-million allergic reactions).
That's because legalization brings everything out into the open for people to deal with it without having to hide in dark alleys. It encourages honesty and realistic thinking regarding these substances. It is the right solution, but so many people are too crippled by fear and bigotry to really do anything about it.
Tell that to the highway patrolmen that get to inform the families of drunk-driving victims.
Perhaps the penalties for drunk driving are too lax? Freedom stops when other people are hurt, and the penalties of abusing freedom should be high enough to discourage it. Whether alcohol is legal or not is irrelevant, here.
They smuggle cigarettes & booze so it can be sold tax free.
Solution: lower the taxes. Maybe that would pay for the billions of dollars less of law enforcement needed?
it is impossible to separate the problems of drugs and race in America.
Mainly due to socialist policies that keep certain racial groups trapped in untenable situations. The greatest gift of government-based charity to the people is stagnation in areas where there are too few jobs, the rents are too high, and the only outlets are drugs and crime.
Says a lot about our commitment to keeping the truly dangerous drugs away from kids, doesn't it?
The government doesn't care about children, it cares about power. The only reason tobbacco, alchohol, coffee, and chocolate aren't controlled substances and illegal is that they were already too large in the economy and backed by people big enough to push the government around.
One huge positive aspect of legalization is equitable treatment. Right now, the legislation is extremely bigoted in favor of one group of people and totally against another group for only political reasons. In the USA, this should have people up in arms.
attempting to gain the upper hand through technology is even stupider.
Especially if they can't scan every letter. The trivial work around is to mail letters with no return address from a random postal dropbox knowing that only some fraction of them will be intercepted. Given the price markup for illegal drugs, the losses are probably tolerable. Legalizing drugs would collapse the high mark-up, making both the scanning system and the way around it moot.
Did my computer just say, "Bend over, fool! It's time for an upgrade!" ?!?
would that be like America's Army but the opponents are religion, knowledge, and representative government?
Hey there, I only have the TNG tech manual.
Where did you see the TOS manual? A friend's house?!?
they go the way of bells and whistles because they think it 'looks good'.
And it works just fine on their Fast Ethernet LAN with only two hops to the webserver...
Some of us actually have jobs based on Windows technologies that provide well for our families. Interesting concept, eh?
I wonder if the Flatus Odor Judges and Barnyard Masterbators say similar things in defense of their jobs.
One thing I look forward to is Windows Administrator becomeing the Buggy Whip Maker of the future. We are in the midst of a new technological revolution, and I'd say we're still in the "pre-teen" stages of its maturity.
Warp 1 is stated to be c in both the TOS and TNG warp scales in the Star Trek TNG Technical Manual.
Okay, of all of us who actually do own both manuals, who are proud of it and who are slightly ashamed of it? I was proud of it, but now I tend to keep them hidden...
Yes, I DO question your patriotism, because it seems like you sure as hell don't love what our country stands for. You'd rather side with the terrorists than side with a millitary commander who is doing the right thing.
Patriotism in the USA is a love of freedom and the Constitution and nation that sustain that freedom. Right now, a lot of stuff is happening where a lot of people feel there is insufficient transparency to the public. It is absolutely patriotic to at least challenge the status quo and try to increase the amount of information available in the interest of maintaining the balance of power between the people and their government.
You'd rather side with the terrorists than side with a millitary commander who is doing the right thing.
While you seem confident in your position, please recognize that it is the people's responsibility and obligation to ask "Is he doing the right thing?" The government has the obligation to make sound arguments to the people in defense of its actions, and there is a lot of discussion that those sound arguments aren't appearing as frequently as they should be.
Patriots, especially in the USA, challenge instances where the government increases in size and power, they challenge excessive taxation, they challenge censorship, they challenge violation of privacy, and they challenge socialist policies. The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written after a face-to-face experience with tyrannical government, and we should take it's ideas very seriously before dismissing them in favor of some current populist opinion. For example, the USA is not a Christain nation, nor is it intended to be a haven for people seeking a life managed by their government, nor is it a utopia of any form. Simply, it is supposed to be a place where people can find their path in life without fearing persecution for that exploration and discovery. It's quite simple in theory, yet has lead to unprecedented growth in a short span of time (200 years across thousands of years of history is definitely unprecedented).
I think a more balanced term would be insurgents.
I wonder what term the French used in Vietnam. The more I read about that war, the thicker the irony gets.
The fact is that your great leader is a coward who ducked the draft and then deserted to avoid a drug test.
I don't know, I was satisfied stopping at the fact that he is a tool of the major political parties. Being a Republican or a Democrat running for high offices isn't such a good thing, anymore.
They didn't make sense other than the tax shelter aspect. And that is currently going on with reprocessing coal by spraying it with oil which results in a tax credit equal to the cost of the "product" (coal sprayed with oil).
These sorts of things are why I find the way taxes are implemented so frustrating. In effect, creating a tax shelter specific to oil wells creates a lie in the economy. The government is subsidizing oil production in a way that creates an artificial and politically-motivated advantage for oil production, when it otherwise possibly wouldn't have existed. The outcome is a short-sighted and selfish tax law from the past causes damage to the free market that lasts decades and probably centuries.
Dividing US energy useage by land area I get 0.344 W/m^2 compared to something like 164 W/m^2 from the sun
This means at 100% efficiency, we would have to devote about 0.2% of the USA towards energy collection. At 20% efficiency, this would be one percent, which is just a bit bigger than South Carolina. So, while converting South Carolina into a solar farm would finally make that state useful (just joking...partly), I hesitantly agree that pure solar conversion to electricity probably isn't practical. If we extend things out into the oceans, such as harnessing thermal layers in the water, there is probably a lot more potential for practical solar power.
You lose land for food production for humans.
It depends on how much corn would need to be put back into the system. For example, a car engine runs itself once started using gasoline that doens't get converted into useful work. In that case, it is an acceptable inefficiency. For corn-biodesiel production to make self-sufficient farming, someone with enough information would need to do the math to see whether the inefficiency is acceptible. There is already enough food in the world (distribution of it is another matter entirely), so it could work out that biodesiel is practical.
You stupid mother fucker
Dammit, I told you not to reveal my real name on Slashdot!!!
Get a duce and a half 6x6 or a unimog if your going to be dragging heavy shit through the woods.
Fine. The example still stands, where there are good tools for the job. On the road, a 6x6 is only slightly less practical as a humvee for commuting to work, but it still is fully justified in other uses. Remember, the statement at the top of this thread had made a generalization that humvees (unimogs, 6x6s, whatever) weren't the best use of oil, and I'm just trying to say that, basically, a big diesel engine on a big off-road vehicle can do wonders where there aren't roads suitable for electric wonder vehicles. In the future this could very well change, but it doesn't stand like that today.
It didn't even provide a Java stack trace? That I find hard to believe.
I believe there was a stack trace, but it omitted the SQL error messages from the DBMS. It was basically "Hi there, sir. An error occurred. Have a nice day." The stack trace just made it say the same thing in a dozen or so lines.
As for using the wrong tool for the job, or not educating the developers, what can I say about that?
I agree entirely...this project is something that I can only watch hopelessly from afar.
just like they did with XP
You mean how about one-third of them Switched to Windows XP? Google Zeitegist is telling, where Windows is now spread across XP, 2000, ME, 98, and a touch of 95. Suprisingly, Windows 98 ranks right along side Windows XP. Back in the early 90's it was mostly 3.1 and DOS in a much smaller user base.
The migration to WinFX/Longhorn/whatever will be mainly new computer purchases plus some fraction of XP/2000/ME/98/95 users. There probably won't be the march of the lemmings migration like there was with Windows 95.